FrostyTrichs
I’m smoking weed about it.
Later the same day
What an awesome assortment of greenery!
What censorship?
Addictive as hell if pack opening and TCGs are up your alley. Addictive as hell if pokemon is something you’ve enjoyed in the past. Consider yourself warned lol.
They give you a couple weeks of their premium pass thing to start so the progress hasn’t felt limiting at all. I’ve kept strictly to the single player battling so far so I don’t have an opinion outside of that yet. So far the battles feel tuned pretty well. You can stumble your way to victory early on if you need time to learn but there are plenty of challenges too. Each battle has 4 win criteria that are optional challenges and I enjoy completing all of them. I have very little criticism after a couple days of playing.
But, it’s also a mobile game in 2024. There are a number of micro transaction opportunities in the shop and they definitely want you to spend money to get things faster. Nothing overly intrusive or annoying so far and everything gameplay related can be obtained from cash-free traditional means. There appear to be some protections in place to limit how much impact whales can have on the game as well.
There isn’t a way to directly trade cash for cards but there are ways to exchange resources that you buy with cash for items that reduce the cool down time on pack opening. TLDR it’s very difficult and expensive to try and brute force your way to a single card let alone a whole deck. Considering the format I don’t think it’s a bad compromise.
I like it enough that I spun up a community for it on WG.
We don’t celebrate holidays so there isn’t really anything out of the ordinary going on. We’re having dinner with my inlaws this week like normal, they just happen to have a plastic tree in their house for some reason lol.
Some kind of respiratory virus has been kicking our butts lately but I think things are improving. The tests for RSV/COVID/pneumonia all came back negative so the treatment is drinking lots of fluids, smoking lots of weed (weirdly this causes zero discomfort), and playing the new Pokemon game.
This week’s agenda is to get the last obstacles taken care of to get things growing again at home. I let most of my plants finish out in preparation for surgery and now it’s time to kick things back into high gear. There’s a fair bit of equipment to finish cleaning and move before finally starting some seeds again. Fingers crossed for a productive week!
Holy shit what a stunner. Is that a varietal of the one it’s next to or a different species?
That’s so freaking cool!
How do you feel about the pieces now that they’re done? Do you see the pieces as the steps it took to make them or as their finished versions?
